Women, Immigration, and Citizenship, 1870-1965
by
Martha Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
The Qualities of a Citizen traces the application of U.S. immigration and naturalization law to women from the 1870s to the late 1960s. Like no other book before, it explores how racialized, gendered, and historical anxieties shaped our current understandings of the histories of immigrant women. The...